This course will introduce students to how modern Latin American nations were formed after the region's independence, focusing especially on how people of diverse ethnic, political, and economic affiliations have struggled to shape their societies' politics and cultures. Lectures include selections from Latin American music, film, art, journalism, photography, legal texts, and other primary documents, a novel, short stories, and memoirs.

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